It’s a quack way to get around. As heavy rains caused floods across southeast Texas on Sunday amid Tropical Storm Hanna, video showed some locals making the most of the wild weather — by tying rope to a giant inflatable duck, hitching it to their truck and chauffeuring kids through the neighborhood. In the clip...
The Jets made a blockbuster trade Saturday, shipping star safety Jamal Adams to the Seahawks for a monster return, including two first-round picks. Here are some thoughts on the deal: 1. The word I keep coming back to when I think of how this all went down is sad. The Jets had such hope in...
The widow of a slain NYPD sergeant has urged cops to “not back down” and “keep fighting” amid nationwide clashes between protesters and police. Lisa Tuozzolo– whose husband Paul was fatally shot in the head chasing down an ex-con in The Bronx in 2016 — spoke at a pro-police gathering of about 1,000 people at...
WASHINGTON — The reason most other teams are envious about the Yankees’ bullpen was on display Sunday when they ran into their first save situation of a very short season without All-Star closer Aroldis Chapman. The hard-throwing lefty is on the COVID-19 injured list. In other locales that would throw a big roadblock up on...
How’s this fur a role-reversal? A St. Bernard found itself on the receiving end of a rescue while on a trip with her owners on Scafell Pike, the tallest mountain in England. Daisy was accompanying her humans down the peak in northwest England on Friday evening when she suddenly collapsed, according to the Wasdale Mountain...
Two men were shot and killed in separate incidents early Sunday, as the spate of gun violence in the Big Apple continued through the weekend. Police said the first victim, a 32-year-old man, was found with a gunshot wound to the right leg behind 260 Park Hill Avenue on Staten Island around 12:45 a.m. He...
Felony assaults in the subway system have spiked 30 percent over the past month — while cops were busy elsewhere in the city, MTA Chairman Pat Foye claimed in an interview Sunday morning. “The NYPD has had its plate full the last couple of months. And as a result of that … felony assaults on...
Former Gov. George Pataki warned on Sunday that New York City is experiencing a “regression to those dark days when criminals ruled the streets.” The Republican said he was alarmed by the rise in shootings during the coronavirus pandemic — which has also sent unemployment rates soaring above 20 percent. “When I took office, New...
President Trump on Sunday said he won’t throw the opening pitch at Yankee Stadium as planned next month, citing his busy schedule. “Because of my strong focus on the China Virus, including scheduled meetings on Vaccines, our economy and much else, I won’t be able to be in New York to throw out the opening...
This one is in the key of Cuomo. A comedian-musician seized on Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s distinctive speaking cadence — by setting one of his coronavirus press conferences to song. NYC comedian Brooks Allison remixed Cuomo’s defense of his strict food-with-drinks requirement over guitar, bass and drums, with the instruments mirroring the executive’s sometimes-musical, sometimes-monotonous cadences....
Westerns and horror-film actor John Saxon, a Brooklyn native and star in the original “A Nightmare on Elm Street,” died Saturday, Deadline reported. He was 83. Saxon’s career included roles in some 200 films, and spanned more than 60 years. His passing was announced by his wife, who said he died from pneumonia in his...
New York City bars were slapped with dozens of social-distancing violations over the weekend for showing a “blatant disregard” for the rules, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. He said the enforcement blitz by State Liquor Authority agents — which resulted in 105 violations being handed out — came about because scofflaw establishments are continuing to...
Mike Francesa provided his listeners one final wrong take on his way out of WFAN. During his last regular appearance on the station Friday after announcing it would be his last show as a daily WFAN host, Francesa said no NFL team would trade two first-round picks to acquire safety Jamal Adams from the Jets....
BALTIMORE — A building for a Baltimore police union was vandalized as demonstrators spent the weekend marching against racial injustice and in solidarity with protesters in Portland, Oregon. People within a group of nearly 100 demonstrators spray-painted the Fraternal Order of Police Baltimore City Lodge 3 building and sidewalks on Saturday night with anti-police messages,...
President Trump stopped to greet about 50 supporters at an intersection near his golf course in New Jersey Sunday — and tossed out red “Keep America Great” hats to the crowd. The supporters gathered in the more than 90 degree heat for Trump’s scheduled departure to Washington hours later. They stood behind a banner that...
A day after roaring ashore as a hurricane, Hanna lashed the Texas Gulf Coast on Sunday with high winds and drenching rains that destroyed boats, flooded streets and knocked out power across a region already reeling from a surge in coronavirus cases.
Since returning to the team’s practice facility, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes is much more comfortable with the coronavirus safety protocols put in place after initially being concerned heading into training camp. “It’s better than I thought coming in,” Mahomes told reporters Saturday. “That’s kind of put my mind at ease, knowing that I’m...
A 17-year-old teenager has died in a drowning accident at a Georgia lake – marking the fourth person to drown in the lake this month. Cristofer Acosta-Farias, of Gainesville, Ga., was swimming in Lake Lanier on Friday afternoon when he disappeared from view, The Gainesville Times reports. Hall County Fire personnel found the boy’s body...
New York state and city have hit record lows for coronavirus hospitalizations based on the latest available figures. There were 637 people hospitalized with the contagion statewide Saturday, the lowest daily figure since March 18, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Sunday. “That’s a new low for us since March 18, so really great news,” the governor...
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on Sunday said he was “hopeful” that within days there will be an announcement on new treatments for COVID-19. “We’re hopeful that, with some of the breakthrough technology on therapeutics, that we will be able to announce some new therapies in the coming days,” Meadows said in an...
Atlanta Black Lives Matter protesters blasted a federal building with fireworks and shattered windows as they took out their wrath on an immigration office there on Saturday, according to reports.
House Democrats will rename a controversial voting rights bill in honor of Rep. John Lewis on Monday, as his coffin is exhibited in the Capitol Rotunda. Lewis, a civil rights icon who died this month at age 80, supported the bill, and Democrats already renamed the Senate version of the bill after him. Third-ranking House...
One in nine NYPD officers has had a complaint against them substantiated, according to ProPublica, which on Sunday released a massive trove of NYPD disciplinary records obtained following the recent repeal of a state law keeping them under wraps.
A slew of local beaches and state parks were forced to shut as early as around 9:30 a.m. Sunday because they had already reached capacity amid the blazing heat and coronavirus social-distancing rules. Robert Moses State Park on Long Island was closed by 9:20 a.m., followed by such hot spots as Jones Beach, Orient Beach...
Douglas weakened Saturday to a Category 1 hurricane as it approached Hawaii, but officials warned people should not be lulled into complacency.
